Wire-hanger.



No. 644,92I. v Patented Mar. 6, |900. J. W. L. JAHUES.

WIRE HANGER.

(Applicatinn led Nov. 27, 1899.)

(No Model.)

lUNrrnn ,rares ATENT ,FFICE JAMES W. L. JAQUES, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

WIRE-HANGER.

SPECFCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 644,921, dated March 6, 1900.

' Application filed November Z7, 1899. Serial No. 738,355. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, JAMES lV. L. JAQUES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and State of Utah, have invented a new and Improved Wire-Hanger, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates more particularly to devices for supporting overhead trolley-wires; but it may be used for suspending other wires or cables.

The object of the invention is to provide a hanger of simple construction that may be readily and quickly applied to hold a wire firmly without bending the hanger and, further, to so arrange the device that it may be moved along a wire when it is desired to change its location.

I Will describe a wire-hanger embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciiication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a side elevation of a hanger embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3, and Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

The hanger comprises a casing l, open at its top and ends, but closed at the bottom 2, and along the inner surface of this bottom 2 the wire 3 is designed to pass. Movable longitudinally in the casing l and in opposite directions are clamping-blocks 4 5. These blocks are shown as serrated on their lower ends, so as to grip tightly against the wire 3. However, it is to be understood that the said lower ends may be left perfectly plain.

Bolts 6 7 pass through the side walls of the casing l and also through slots 8 9, formed through the blocks 4 5, these slots being inclined from their inner ends downward to their outer ends. The inner or adjacent ends of the blocks 4 and 5 are inclined upward and inward, and adapted to engage with these inclined ends is a wedge-block l0, the upper end of which may be variously shaped and to which a link orother suitable suspending device ll may be attached. This block 10 has its sides inclined to correspond to the inclined ends of the blocks 4 and 5, and abolt 12 passes through the side walls of the casing l and also through a vertical slot 13, formed through the wedge-block 10. All the boltsmay be round, square, or any desired shape.

In operation to place the device on a wire the casing l is tlrst to be slipped over the wire. The wedge-block lO may be then placed in position, with the bolt l2 passingloosely through it, and after this the blocks 4 'and 5 are to be placed in position, with the bolts 6 7 passing loosely through them. Now by drawing upward on the block lO or by drawing downward on the wire 3 it is obvious that by the relative movement of the block 10 and the blocks 4 and 5 and because of the bolts 6 and 7 engaging with the upper inclined walls of the slots 8 and 9 the blocks 4 and 5 will be moved outward and into close engagement with the wire, after which the several nuts on the bolts are to be tightened.

It may be sometimes necessary to connect electrically the adjacent ends of two wires with a hanger. I therefore provide the blocks 4 and 5, respectively, with openings 14 and l5, adapted to receive the ends of the wires, said ends of course being drawn upward to engage in the openings.

The hanger may be made very light and with very slight projection below the under side of the trolley-wire, so as not to interfere with the passing of a trolley along the wire. Obviously by loosening the several boltsv the blocks 4 and 5 may be sufciently disengaged from the wire to permit thehanger to be moved longitudinally along the wire, which is sometimes found necessary for adjustment, especially where trolley-wires pass around corners.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A wire-hanger, comprising a casing open at its top and ends, clamping-blocks movable in opposite directions in said casing for engaging with a wire, and a wedge-block for moving the rst-named blocks outward, sub; stantially as specified.

2. A wire hanger, comprising a casing, blocks movable longitudinally in said casing' and in opposite directions, the inner or adja-- cent ends of said blocks being inclined upward and inward, and a block having its opsite sides inclined for engaging with the in- IOO clines ofthe first-named blocks, the said lastnamed block having a movement transversely of the iirst-named blocks, substantially as specified.

3. A wire hanger comprising a casing, clamping-blocks movable longitudinally in said casing and in opposite directions, bolts passing through the side walls of the casing and also passing through slots in the blocks, the said slots beinginclined outward and upward, and a wedge-block for engaging with the inner or adjacent ends of the first-named blocks, substantially as specified.

4. A trolley-hanger, comprising a casing, clamping-blocks movable longitudinally and in opposite directions in said casin g, bolts eX- tended through slots in said blocks, the slots being inclined upward and outward, a wedgeblock movably engaging with the inclined ina wire, substantially as specied.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES W. L. JAQUES.

Witnesses:

JOHN JAQUEs, E. R. PARRY. 

